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Non-heart beating donation is used where possible, but the problem is as soon as the donor's heart stops beating, the organs deteriorate within their body. ( Obviously, NHBD is never used for heart transplants.) Usually kidneys can be transplanted from NHB donor's, however the donor needs to be injected with a preserving solution within minutes of the donor's heart stopping beating. (This usually means doing it before consent for organ donation has been obtained). This essentially means that the donor must die in a hospital and be treated by doctors with some foresight. Clearly, sometimes the odds of this happening are quite small, hence the low numbers of NHB donors.

NHB donors pretty much have to die in a hospital, otherwise it can be quite tricky to assess how long they have been dead for, and how much the organs have deteriorate in that time. The conditions for a NHB donor to successfully donate organs are quite limiting, otherwise they would be used far more readily.

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